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What will convince you to upgrade?

You’ve probably heard that SQL Server 2022 is on the way, and, assuming the name doesn’t change, it will be later this year. That is great news for folks in the data platform community as features and improvements they’ve been hoping for are added. I’m not currently supporting any production SQL Servers, but I’m still […]

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2022-04-30

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Gathering Data Through Life

Every once in a while, I find a list of places posted on the Internet with a "how many have you visited?" question attached. This might be US states, countries, cities, or even attractions. I love traveling with my wife and having new experiences, and as we've gotten older, we value the experiences more than […]

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2022-04-29

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Scripting Makes Mistakes Easier Than Ever

A major outage from Atlassian because of a bad script has Steve thinking about the challenges of recovering from mistakes. When we are making changes to portions of our data and we need to plan for mistakes to occur and ensure we can restore the data.

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2022-04-22

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Question of the Day

Changing the AG Listener

In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?

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